Posts by Mark 85

Re: Great stuff!

You could be right. Personally, I'm hoping for some winds or a passing phone sanitizer to clear the dust off Opportunity and then find out it's been trying to call home but no one is listening.

You should be up voted a thousand times. Google won't like it but they sure as hell aren't about to give up profit.

Re: In other news

Hippos? Maybe rhinos as they seem to be more ill tempered than hippos.

Re: Yee Gods

Probably "contractors" aren't vetted as deeply as actual agents. Then again, even good vetted agents have been turned after they've been hired. The worst enemy anywhere in government or business is a disgruntled employee.

Re: Job security

This means that Windows will actually be bug free (and software free) before the turn of the century.

Great, so their income solution is to charge users for not using it then? Pure profit. The stock folks will love it.

Re: The Haynes Manual of Life

What we do now; put them in a coffee tin and stash said tin in the garage "just in case".

Re: Problem solved - once and for all

Fatal flaws... who locks the prison doors? Who keeps the border shutdown? But you do make a point and I agree.

Re: Airgapped

Then, maybe the rest of the world should airgap Russia first. Same for China. Seems here in the West we get daily reports of both countries misdeeds.

Disclaimer... the West isn't innocent in this either.

Greed does rule.

Exactly. His personal greed overwrote his gut and the warning signs.

Re: What can you fit in 25kg...

I take it they figure the winds at that altitude are not a problem? Given the size, weight, and no information on power or airspeed, I'd think the winds could cause problems with holding station over a given area.

Isn't this the normal mode of operation? Breech, "oops" statement, followed by weasel words of care and concern?

Re: I have a feeling that was the first one I owned too

I think that the reddish/pinkish one would have been the one I had as I had a Radio Shack unit. Fun times of writing and compiling code and seeing if it worked. One did have to get creative though since memory was limited and the OS and complier took up most of the memory. 16 and then 32K as an upgrade. I could be wrong as it was a long time ago.

Back then, the tape cassette sat next to the computer and "save early, save often" was hammered into my brain cells as when the code crashed, you would have to start over if it hadn't been saved.

Re: More craters

I guess you have to be properly trained to avoid imagining things that aren't really there. Maybe.

At a minimum, you'll need a PhD and some grant money.

Re: Help desk

I guess solving actual customers' problems isn't as sexy as a new ad campaign, is it?

Support is a cost center. Marketing/Sales is a profit center. So figure out which department is actually a priority for the board.

Re: I can offer dissenting evidence

Exactly. My rule is start the evening with the "good" stuff which is usually more expensive and then go the other stuff.

Re: Sucked back in

That and claiming new pants, shirt, etc. on an expense voucher usually stops this nonsense.

Re: boggles the mind

Can't upvote that enough. It is about money and changing over user sites, databases, etc. is expensive which the boards tend not to agree to. Then there's issue of compatibility, etc. once things are upgraded.

From this: "meaning admins had to think a bit harder about their old intranets, and consider bringing legacy web apps up to date for more modern browsers rather than simply flinging a wildcard at the compatibility list." It implies that admins are the problem not manglement. Like admins have that kind of power to push upgrades and spend money because 'MS said so..". MS seems to be more clueless by the day.

Re: The National Enquirer

They've changed quite a bit in the last 20 years or so. Use to be just a scandal rag and yellow journalism with a lot of made up stories or actual stories that were sensationalized. They were "entertainment" but for a different time, different world. Somewhere they've decided to take themselves a bit more seriously. This claim of "pay us or we publish" is something new for them I think. They used to love being sued because any publicity is good publicity.

Re: I like Chromium, but not Chrome

One of the problems is all the scripts in the average website because of Google and ads. So will the "speed things up" crowd win or the "bloat the site with ads" crowd win. Follow the money and profit and we'll have our answer.

Re: Lock him up

The big guy at the top has used CEO's etc. as advisors and heads of departments. They all work towards the corporate US model. Pai is just a tool by the corporates. Not sure what the answer is other than people getting fed up and taking back their country. But somehow, I don't see that happening.

Re: Oracle - innocent ???

I think they're beyond the pound the table and make speeches stage. More like "hold your breath until they blue and scream "conspiracy". These truly are the times of madness.

Re: M&S and MS

would be to humanely dispose of all advertising, marketing and sales persons

Why does it have to be "humanely"? Make an example and no one will ever want to be one.

Re: Pot Plants?

Pot plants? or potted plants? There's a difference in that one is smokable, the other not so much.

Re: Representing himself

I'd almost bet the odds that he has lawyers in the background giving advice and watching very carefully what happens.

Also forgot the covers and binding. Probably full color, heavy stock for the covers.

As for the printers... renting and having delivered on site costs money.

The other possibility is that the whole think was sent to commercial printing company.

Re: Has anyone tried....

"password9"

Re: "Online Buddies did not respond to repeated requests for an explanation"

6) somehow, the developer of the database found absolutely no way to link profiles to an image and prevent anyone else from seeing it, and couldn't be arsed enough to pull the fire alarm on this

It might have specced out that way, or more likely, the developer(s) were basically monkeys and paid peanuts.

Re: re: Its not AI.

The label of "AI" is pure marketing and hype. What will the new label (buzzword) be when machines actually think and have a consciousness?